OK, seriously, WTF. It's one thing when you lack the money to make payroll because you're insolvent. It's totally another when you HAVE the money but your SYSTEMS are all f'd up.

http://detnews.com/article/20111003/...ll-is-too-slow

This is ridiculous. If this were the private sector, there's not way this would all be a problem. Even within the public sector, this is absurd. I can't imagine that the City of Detroit has more employees/vendors/contractors/unions than the University of Michigan and this would never fly there. And between the U-M Health System, the Graduate Employees Organization, and their thousands and thousands of retirees, full-time employees, and seasonal employees, their operation is gargantuan.

How the hell is this a problem at City Hall?? Are the systems that old? Are the people all that incompetent? What is going on?